Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, joins John on this 50th episode of the show — to discuss the current state of Swift and how it came to be, as well as to speculate about what the future of the language and its ecosystem might look like.
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Links
- Chris on Twitter
- John on Twitter
- The Swift Community Podcast
- Contribute to the Swift Community Podcast
- Swift Evolution
- Haskell
- LLVM
- Smalltalk
- Swift’s compiler and standard library
- Presentation on MLIR
- “The NeXT Era Ends, the Swift Era Begins” by Brent Simmons
- Jupyter notebooks
- Swift for TensorFlow
- Swift by Sundell newsletter
- Chris’ website